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The Electric Corset: Beauty, Posture, and a Jolt of Bad Science

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When Electricity Became A Wellness Brand In the late 1800s, electricity was not just a technology. It was a mood. Electric lights were glowing.

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On a spring morning in 1957, in the market town of Hexham, England, two young sisters set out for church and never came home.

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